Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 15

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

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  This is Harry, and welcome back to my podcasts on english language and grammar points that are relevant for those of you who are studying English up to and around the intermediate level.

• 00:22

  As always, I'm going to read you a sentence twice and then explain to you the key grammar points or things of interest in that particular sentence.

• 00:30

  And hopefully you'll find this useful in your english learning.

• 00:34

  I hope you're enjoying the podcasts.

• 00:36

  And so when you're ready, we'll, we'll begin the first reading.

• 00:42

  After they had finished their work, they headed off to the cafe for some refreshments.

• 00:49

  Second reading after they had finished their work, they headed off to the cafe for some refreshments.

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  So what exactly does this mean?

• 01:02

  After they had finished?

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  So we mean when something had come to an end after.

• 01:08

  Yeah.

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  Okay, so this is a preposition, not before, which is when something begins, but after when something finishes.

• 01:17

  A f t e r.

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  So that's the first point after they had finished.

• 01:22

  Here we are using the past perfect after they had finished.

• 01:29

  So something that started and ended in the past, they had finished.

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  Had is the past tense of the verb to have and finished, the past participle of the verb to finish.

• 01:43

  So after they had finished, okay, so in previous podcasts, we had used the present perfect.

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  Here we're using that past perfect because it started and ended, okay, after they had finished their work, t h e I r, their work.

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